Run The Jewels' 'Close Your Eyes' Is The Most Poignant Video You'll See About Police Brutality

March 26, 2015 5:52 PM

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Rappers Killer Mike and El-P of Run The Jewels continue to tackle complex social issues head-on. This time, it's police brutality and a staggeringly powerful new music video for the track "Close Your Eyes (And Count To F---)."

Directected by A.G. Rojas, the video stars actors Shea Whigham ("Boardwalk Empire") and Keith Stanfield ("Selma") as "Cop" and "Kid" waging an un-winnable, close contact fight against each other. As El-P put it in a statement emailed to The Huffington Post, “this is a vision of a seemingly never-end...